My work with whistleblowers in this Parliament, especially those who work in the NHS, has helped to taught me that integrity is more important than institutions.
After taking so much evidence, drafting a report and considering so many amendments, we should all now meet the responsibility placed on us.
Modernity, quickness, and digital ability are all vital, but so is the wisdom and understanding of the older worker.
The best way to get a young person to be disengaged and childish is to deny them responsibility on the reasoning that they are disengaged and childish.
My enthusiasm for opening up Parliament to the people is put to the test in a new BBC TV series.
It’s not just cartoons of Mohammed that have become taboo.
Senior NHS Trust managers enjoy private sector salaries and pensions but none of the private sector risk. This must change.
We could be seeing the start of a Royal College of Teaching.
They are touching the same sensitive spot that makes the public go gooey as Blair touched – in the same way, but with different lines.
It would be symbolic of our willingness to say to those abusers who think they are untouchable because they have power: “No, you are not.”
“Your call is important to us.” “We are sorry for the delay.” “We are experiencing a high level of calls…” Problems can’t be solved without human engagement.
Politics is bad at dealing with such intangible things as people’s psychology; bad at encompassing and promoting real belief systems; bad at emotional intelligence.
UKIP is rich on anger – short on anything to actually change the sources of that anger.
The final irony is that those who dislike the Establishment are dancing to the very tune, played expertly by Alex Salmond, against which they think they are revolting.
Adeste Fideles. In Dulci Jubilo. In a season during which we hear or sing more of it than usual, it is timely to wonder at its logical and emotional power.